Friday, November 6, 2015
7 p.m.
opening: text and photo installation, reading, improvisations

reading: Petra Kohlenprath
information from the memory of a family being silent in Slovene-German, Petra Kohlenprath
flugelhorn improvisations: Fredl Lang

Saturday, November 7, 2015
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
audio installation: information from the memory of a family being silent in Slovene-German

7 p.m.
keynote speech
Memory culture in Austria using the example of concentration camp Loibl Nord, Dr. Peter Gstettner

Sunday, November 8, 2015
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
audio installation: information from the memory of a family being silent in Slovene-German
text and photo installation: the Slovenian ethnic group in Carinthia, concentration camp substations Mauthausen Loibl Nord


INTERFERENCES are considered a project in individual episodes, unlimited in time and region, working „with the memories“ of people, places and objects. Goals are an expansion of consciousness, finding a language and gaining action ability by connecting perceptions not yet appercieved in this way or expression. Identity-establishing. During this process, memories of places and objects – their ability to testify the present’s past – are being included and changed by overlays of the present’s presence.


information from the memory of a family being silent in Slovene-German
Referring to seemingly unimportant objects and autobiographical events, Petra Kohlenprath describes her socialisation and her growing up between the poles of a familial search for identity and the Carinthian people’s understanding of history, characterised by myths and legends in the 1970s and 80s. In 1944, her grandfather joined the partisans, was arrested and waited three and a half months for his exectution at the regional criminal court in Graz. He escaped the carrying out of his death sentence.


The flugelhorn
Ever since she can remember, the flugelhorn has been lying in the wardrobe of her parent’s living room in Ferlach. It was taken out of its cloth bag once or twice a year, and the children were allowed to try coaxing sounds out of it. Where it came from? Her father narrates: From the retreat. After war’s end, he says, before the border to Jugoslavia was ultimately closed, tens of thousands of people from the South were trekking northwards across Loiblpass. The valley, he continues, had been full of people carrying all their belongings with them. Wooden carts. Crowded. „Everything“, he says, had been left behind. Dishware, furniture. Likewise, that flugelhorn.

With friendly assistance of Kulturamt/Stadt Graz, Kulturabteilung/Land Steiermark and Bundeskanzleramt – Sektion 2 Kunst